Joe Rogers: Irish I was in Ireland

5:15 PM,
Jul. 8, 2013

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It was clear I was traveling with my wife when I found myself in the Cork Butter Museum, learning about butter's important role in Irish history.

Fairies, I discovered, were once thought to pose a grave threat to the process.

Had I been in Ireland solo, this sort of information would probably have escaped me. But visiting butter museums is the kind of thing husbands do. If marriage is a long lesson in accommodation, vacation trips are the shorter, intense course. ...